Loc de muncă, loc de joacă

Born in the year when "Hit Me Baby One More Time" was marking the end of the Millennium, Alexandra’s journey in the Belles Arts starts in the ancestral lands of Orăştie. Even though technically a Gen Z, Alexandra is a Millennial at heart with her own two wolves inner battle: how to keep authentic creativeness while reconciling the social media-driven journey to success. In love with shapes, shadows and rolled-up sleeves, Alexandra pursues the Faculty of Architecture and afterwards, back-to-back with building her own career, continues to develop her fascination for photography. With a keen eye for the unknown and a desire to capture nature and humanity in its truest form, Alexandra approaches creativity with constant curiosity and flawless imperfection. An Odyssey-like journey for a never-ending craving to find the fleeting beauty.

A photographic series shot at LX Factory, Lisbon, Portugal The series explores how a former 19th-century industrial site was completely redirected in function — not restored to preserve its original role, but repurposed into a space of socialising, culture, and consumption. LX Factory no longer produces textiles or industrial goods; instead, it produces encounters, exhibitions, cafés, and shops. This radical shift in function, while keeping the original industrial architecture visible, becomes the central focus of the series. The first image captures three industrial buildings identical in original structure, yet radically different in stage of intervention — from a complete mural, to untouched bare concrete, to abstract graffiti — a visual spectrum of architectural practice. The second photograph fixes a moment of fracture: a hole torn into the concrete of a former warehouse, exposed rebar and graffiti visible inside, above functioning shops — industrial memory coexisting with a new economy of experience. The third image documents an active process: a metal scaffold and an industrial walkway linking former factory buildings, now home to concept stores — the temporary work structure having become part of the site's final aesthetic. Together, the three images offer an interpretation of the theme "In Practice – as Opposed to 'In Theory'": architecture not as a finished object, but as a continuous process of negotiation between past and present. LX Factory did not preserve its original function — it became something else, while still carrying visible traces of its industrial identity. It is a building that never truly finishes, but continues to host new layers of use, appropriation, and reinterpretation.